This book highlights the ideological and practical crises now
challenging Central Al Qaeda with regard to global perceptions of
its credibility, viability, and profile as a leader among Islamist
jihadist organizations.
These crises are, it is argued here, directly related to Central
AQ s highly visible affiliation with the excessively violent, mass
terror attacks against Muslims of all sects in Iraq, Afghanistan,
Pakistan and now in Syria in the decade since 9/11. AQ has made
several public statements justifying those attacks through its
interpretations of the Islamic jurisprudence of 'takfir', which
allows one Muslim to declare another as inappropriately practising
Islam to the degree that s/he can be declared an unbeliever (kufr)
and excommunicated from the global community of Muslims (Ummah). In
its public statements, Central AQ underscores that its attacks
against and killing of Muslims is a necessary evil that must be
condoned in order to realize a greater, more collective good for
Muslims this includes establishing a transnational, pan-Islamic
caliphate comprised of 'true believers'. The book argues that AQ s
reputation now is being compromised by its public support of the
increasingly radical (mis)appropriations of takfir executed by its
Islamist associates fighting in the civil wars in Asia and the
Middle East.
Crises in Al Qaeda s Global Jihad investigates these crises by
exploring the development of Central AQ s very complex relationship
with radical (mis)appropriations and manifestations of takfir. It
then investigates Central AQ s unique relationship with each of its
affiliates in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Syria to explore AQ
s relationship to the takfiris and the unique development of takfir
in each of those spaces. The author then goes on to consider how
the prominence of takfir in AQ-affiliated jihadist activities in
Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan and now emerging in Syria is
affecting negatively perceptions of AQ s credibility as an Islamist
terror organization, and concludes by examining how AQ s
association with radical manifestations of takfir in the post-9/11
era may compromise its long-term viability.
This book will be of much interest to students of political
violence and terrorism, Islamism, global security and IR."
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